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This is a crude client for Mastodon, loosely based on the command line client Toot.
Mastostream's speciality is providing a very minimal way of keeping up with posts, doing a couple of simple on-the-fly actions like favouriting or responding to polls, and bookmarking anything you want to reply to properly for later. The place on the timeline you read to is automatically saved so that the client can resume showing you toots wherever you left off.
Features
Edit the configuration values at the top of mastostream.py to set your instance and preferred media viewing programs. You should then be able to run it in a terminal:
$ python3 mastostream.py
I've tested Mastostream on Linux, it will likely work on OS X, and in theory it supports Windows but I haven't tested it there.
Dependencies
When first run Mastostream will ask you to log in, hopefully the instructions it gives are fairly clear. The process is:
Screen: instance confirmation dialogs and application description
Screenshot: just after logging in
Screenshot: annotated Mastostream post view
Mastostream displays a list of key bindings below posts, these are:
Visibility icons:
Reply icons:
GPL v3.
